3D print Chase Tower
A free, printable model of Chase Tower, with its three wings of different heights and taller core, among the tall buildings and streets around it, generated from real map data in your browser.
Free, in your browser. Exports a slicer-ready 3MF.
About Chase Tower
Chase Tower, with 40 stories, stands at 201 North Central Avenue in downtown Phoenix, Arizona, in the Central Avenue Corridor. Welton Becket and Fred M. Guirey designed it, and it opened in 1972, built for Valley National Bank. Earlier names were Bank One Center, and before that Valley Bank Center. Bank One merged with Valley National in 1992, Chase later merged with Bank One, in 2005, and the building's new name dates from December 2005. Rising 147 m (483 ft), it is the tallest building in Arizona.
The tower fills a whole city block. In plan it looks like a three-leaf clover with a stem, and the stem is a narrow elevator core on the southern face, with a rough concrete texture; it is the tallest part of the tower. A glass panel curtain wall covers the rest. Of the three wings, the west has 34 floors, the east 36 and the north 38, although the 38th is the highest floor that can be occupied. Unlike many skyscrapers with street-level lobbies, access is through an underground restaurant and retail concourse set well back from the bordering streets.
Welton Becket and Associates, a Los Angeles firm of architects, designed the building, alongside Guirey, Srnka, Arnold & Sprinkle as local associate architects, and the Henry C. Beck Company built it. When finished, the tower began a period of renewed investment in downtown Phoenix that ran for nearly two decades and ended with the 1989 real estate crash brought on by the savings and loan crisis. A 2003 renovation made room for 800 more Bank One employees.
How it prints
Make this print opens the generator on a 600 m square around the landmark. Buildings print at close to true scale, so the landmark grows with the print size.
| Print size | Landmark height | Scale |
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| 160 mm default | 40 mm | 1:3,750 |
| 200 mm | 49 mm | 1:3,000 |
| 256 mm | 63 mm | 1:2,344 |
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- Stepped wings and taller core
- Three wings of different heights step up beside a taller core. Layers of 0.12 to 0.16 mm keep the steps crisp, and printing slowly helps the tall, thin top.
- Tall, narrow profile
- Seen from the east or west, the tower is tall and narrow. Printing slowly with good cooling helps tall thin shapes, and a bigger print size makes them sturdier.
- One piece with the ground
- Chase Tower is joined to the ground in the exported file, and the four-side check found no floating parts, so nothing needs gluing.
- Pick the detail for your nozzle
- In the Buildings settings, set Landmark detail to Print friendly to adapt thin parts and small details to the print scale. Full detail keeps every modeled feature, for larger prints or a finer nozzle.
- Colors
- Buildings, roads, water and ground arrive as separate filament slots in the 3MF. Chase Tower takes the building color.
- File format
- You get a 3MF for Bambu Studio, OrcaSlicer or PrusaSlicer. Any of them can save it as STL if you need one.
About this model
Chase Tower is one of more than 2,300 landmark models in Mini Skyline. They are made with AI, and each one is checked from four sides in its real surroundings before release. Everything around it is built from OpenStreetMap and Overture map data. If you would rather print the shape from map data, turn off Landmark models in the Buildings settings.
Common questions
Is there a Chase Tower STL I can download?
Mini Skyline builds the file for you in your browser and exports 3MF, which every major slicer opens. If you need an STL, open the 3MF in your slicer and export it from there.
How big can I print it?
Any print size from 40 mm across. Chase Tower grows with the print: about 40 mm tall on the default 160 mm print. For a model larger than your printer bed, Project Mode splits the area into tiles.
Is it free?
Yes. Generation runs in your browser, with no account and nothing behind a paywall.
